Stuck on a right click

[Damlimey]

First of all, my thanks to jansschenkel and shadowslash for their help with this but I've come unstuck. Here's an example of how I've tried to set up a player start/stop button with a right click menu option, maybe someone can tell me where I've gone wrong...

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start/stop button code:
on mouseUp
   if pMouseButton is 1 then  -- left-button click
     do your normal thing
  else
   popup button "rightclick"
 end if
   if the filename of player "p1" is "" then exit mouseUp
   put the label of me into myLabel 
 if myLabel is not "STOP" then 
    set the label of me to "STOP"
    start player "p1" 
   else 
   set the label of me to "START" 
   stop player "p1" 
   # this resets the player to the beginning 
   set the currenttime of player "p1" to 0 
end if

end mouseUp

And here is the right click pop up menu code:

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on menuPick pMenuItem
  answer pMenuItem
end menuPick 

Thank you in advance,
geoff

[malte]

Hi,

you do not pass the parameter in mouseUp

should read

on mouseUp pMouseButton

Hth,

Malte

[Damlimey]

I have found another approach which is shown here...

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on mouseUp mouseButtonNumber 
 if mouseButtonNumber = 1 then do leftclickstuff 
 if mouseButtonNumber = 3 then do rightclickstuff 
end mouseUp

This looks like a more elegant way to proceed but I do have another question...

Now that I have a pop up menu on my right-click, I am finding it hard to find out how to use the menu items command. If for example I want to have a 'load' option in the menu item list, how do I write the command line to action that menu item?

Thank in advance,
D

[Klaus]

Hi D,

let me first say that context menus that appear on right/control click are supposed to appear "on mousedown". This is at least my observation.

Sou you should script this:

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## Only hanlde right clicks!
on mousedown tButton
  if tButton = 3 then
    popup btn "my context menu" at the mouseloc
  end if
end mousedown

## Handle "normal" clicks with the left mousebutton
on mouseup tButton
  if tButton <> 1 then
    exit mouseup
  end if
  ## do your mouseup stuff here..
end mouseup

To handle the choosen menutitems from the popup you need to do it in the
"menupick" handler of the popup button like this:

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on menupick tItem
  switch tItem
    case "Load"
       ### do your "load" stuff
    break
   case "Another choosen menu item"
     ### do other stuff etc...
   break
   case "Yet another choosen menu item"
     ### do other stuff etc...
   break
  end switch
end menupick

Hope that helps.


Best

Klaus

[Damlimey]

Once again, you've cleared my confusion as well as putting me on the right path!

That all works really well.

D

[shadowslash]

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on mousedown tButton
  if tButton = 3 then
    popup btn "my context menu" at the mouseloc
  end if
end mousedown

Lollllllllllllll this was one of the RunRev mysteries that I can't seem to find an answer of and that I'm too shy to ask about... Thanks a lot!

[!Jerry!]

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on mousedown tButton
  if tButton = 3 then
    popup btn "my context menu" at the mouseloc
  end if
end mousedown

Lollllllllllllll this was one of the RunRev mysteries that I can't seem to find an answer of and that I'm too shy to ask about... Thanks a lot!

Hi shadowslash!

These mysteries are old enough :

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: pop-up menu on mouse right button click

A better option is to put your opup menu button somewhere off-screen, and then use a script like:

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on mouseUp pMouseButton
  if pMouseButton = 3 then 
    popup button "MyPopupButton" at the clickLoc
  else
    -- do other stuff here
  end if
end mouseUp

The popup menu button will receive the 'menuPick' message when the user picks one of the items, so you'll have to move some of your logic into that menu button as well:

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on menuPick pItem
  switch pItem
    case "Hello world"
      answer "Hello, world!"
      break
    case "Foo"
      answer "Bar" with "Cancel"
      break
    -- more case statements here
  end switch
end menuPick

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

Jerry

[shadowslash]

Yah well, I just started Revving last month and I kinda missed that topic...

[!Jerry!]

Don't cry! It is too late! This is a good lesson for the next time!


Jerry

[shadowslash]

Don't cry! It is too late! This is a good lesson for the next time!


Jerry

Lol ofcourse...
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